I think that is totally doable, but I'm not holding my breath for it to actually happen. If it worked, traffic would flow a few percent more smoothly, and only the traffic engineers would notice the difference. If it went wrong, anyone involved with the project would be mercilessly mocked, and their careers curtailed. Given that (combined with AIs' well-known penchant for occasionally going wrong), there's not a whole lot of motivation to implement such a system. Traffic engineers would prefer a system that works just okay 100% of the time, over a system that works optimally 99.9% of the time and does something crazy 0.1% of the time.

Associating the term "Superintelligence" with Meta and Zuckerberg does not compute. It's like associating Calculus with the tic-tac-toe playing chicken in the mall.

One of the many things I find weird when visiting America is their awful tipping culture.
I don’t to be asked every 5 minutes by the waiter if I need my water topped up or if my fries are still warm enough. Leave me alone.
And I certainly don’t want them knowing anything about me. Ewww.
I get plenty good service in non tipping countries without bribing the waiters.

When I was in Marine Corps boot camp in San Diego we called the constant landing and taking off planes freedom birds.

Microsoft more or less ignored the Internet from 1992-1994....and in June 1992 there were only ten websites. The commercial internet wasn't a thing until July 1995.

You have a weird, fucked-up misconception of history.

Facebook's shitty, Nazi-trained AI bans people for posting links to the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.

Zuckerberg is a shit-eating robotic Nazi and the best thing for the world would be for every one of his companies to instantly go out of business.

Facebook's shitty, Nazi-trained AI bans people for posting links to the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust. Zuckerberg is a shit-eating robotic Nazi and the best thing for the world would be for every one of his companies to instantly go out of business.

More like PhallusVPN with all the dicking around going on.

Lifetime in the cloud means nothing when the wind can simply blow it away. There is no such thing as "ownership" or "lifetime" when the cloud is involved.

Grok is an LLM, it's just as likely to make shit up as to actually pull real data, regardless of where it claims to be sourcing from.

RussiaMatters (part of Harvard university), in their July update (https://www.russiamatters.org/news/russia-ukraine-war-report-card/russia-ukraine-war-report-card-july-9-2025), has a bar chart with total Russian territorial control broken down by month since the February invasion, including up to June 2025. It's in square miles instead of square kilometers, but the conversion isn't hard: multiply by 2.59. It shows long periods of stagnation with some periods of gains. It does not paint a picture of there being any significant changes in years.

I don't think that unlimited western aid is realistic. Or rather, the aid itself could be unlimited, because it's a very small amount to western economies (the aggregate GDP of NATO countries is ~9x that of Russia, whose economy is smaller than Canada), but it depends on the political will to continue that aid, which is not unlimited. Unlimited Russian endurance is also unrealistic, their economy can't sustain this pace forever, especially as they've almost burned through the Soviet legacy stockpile.

I can't speak for a UK taxpayer. As a Canadian taxpayer, I want to see more of my tax dollars go to help defend Ukraine. I don't think we're helping enough. However, public opinion polling in Canada is that 48% say the current level of support is about right, 14% says it's not enough, and 17% says it's too much. So I don't expect it to change.

As for the money that Ukraine is getting from seized Russian assets, what they're getting is all derived from interest on the seized assets, with the original assets themselves still remaining intact. This skirts around the issue about the legal ability to do anything with the assets themselves. I don't think that Russia will ever be in any position to demand the seized assets back, as most of the world sees Russia as the aggressor (Russia is generally perceived to be equivalent to WW2 Germany) who will be expected to pay reparations, and Russia doesn't have any leverage over the countries that have seized the assets. Europe's economy is not currently in crisis. Their economic outlook is "mixed" at worst.

Visual Basic was the shit until .NET murdered it.

Back in 1989 when I was in the Marine Corps I had some down time so I decided to take a few x86 assembler college classes to pass the time. My instructor worked for the DoD on base and seeing how I took to Assembler so quickly he gave me a copy of Ada83 on 5.25" diskettes. He told me Ada is one of those languages that will endure and I should learn it. I dabbled in it a bit and even revisited it when Ada95 came around. I was more fascinated with languages like Turbo Pascal at the time (doh). I'm not surprised to see Ada is still ranked so high given what my instructor told me all those years ago.

This guy jumps from one buzzword tech du jour to the next with nothing to show for the previous massive investment. If I was a shareholder, I'd sell-sell-sell.

about them raiding gang houses and deporting actual violent illegal immigrant gang members? My feeds don't seem to be getting those stories.

I haven't used generative AI in a year or more. I just don't have time to be bothered with it, it doesn't contribute meaningfully to my life.